Tour
Concord Museum Thoreau Collection Private Tour
- Item Number
- 551
- Estimated Value
- 300 USD
- Sold
- 135 USD to nameistaken
- Number of Bids
- 6 - Bid History
Item Description
Enjoy an exclusive tour of the Concord Museum’s newly installed Henry Thoreau gallery with Curator David Wood. The Concord Museum’s Henry David Thoreau Collection, the world’s largest collection of objects related to Concord’s native son, numbers over 250 artifacts—furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork, books, photographs, manuscripts, and textiles. Remarkably, half of the 250 objects in the Thoreau collection came to the Museum, directly or indirectly, through one source, Sophia Thoreau. Sophia Thoreau helped manage her brother’s literary legacy in the years immediately following his death, and she is largely responsible for the preservation of his material legacy as well.
On this private tour, learn lesser known stories and new details about Thoreau’s possessions through the eyes of material culture expert and Curator, David Wood. The gallery includes the desk, bed and chair from Walden Pond as well as Thoreau’s walking stick, spyglass, and Aeolian harp. A behind-the-scenes look at a few objects not usually on display, will be included. Available for up to 15 people on a mutually-agreed upon date.
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